Ryan’s Birthday

Another birthday for Ryan!  It happened on the same day we got home from Florida, nice birthday present for him

It’s a good thing we have so much help to light all of those candles!

Last Day Of School 2014-2015

The kids finished up school for the year!  Claire was in 1st Grade with Heidi, Justin in 3rd with Mrs. Ross, Emma in sixth with Mrs. J, and Ashley finished her last year of Jr. High!

4 Months Old

Wynn somehow has grown to be 4 months old already!  He is such a sweet baby still!  I just want to snuggle him all day long, and he lets me most of the time!  He always has his eyes on Momma, he is a lot of work to get a smile out of for strangers.  He definitely knows who he likes!  He loves his blankies, just like the other kids, and snuggles them up to his face and eats them!  We just love this little brother!

Our favorite blankey right now is the one Grandma Brown made for Rett.  It is Eastery.

I can get him to smile and laugh, but it can be over really quick and he is crying!  Thankfully he just wants to be held instead of tickled and laughed at!

This is Wynn’s blanket from Grandma Brown.  I needed to take pics to send to her.

He looks so big here, and blue, blue eyes!

I am happy to have this 6th little child.  I feel like I finally see that they are growing up too fast on me!  We spend a lot of time rocking and snuggling because I know he is going to be all grown up way too soon!

Ashley is 14!

I cant even believe this!  Ashley has grown up so fast, right before my eyes!  She loves all things books!  It doesn’t matter the type, or the length, she will read it till all hours of the night!  She loves volleyball and piano also, and fits it in when her nose isnt in a book!

I went in to have lunch with her at school, like I have every year since she was in kindie.  She said, oh, Im surprised to see you here.  I am glad she isn’t embarrassed, although she only sat for 5 minutes and then ran off!  Probably to read!  Ashley is great help to me.  She is  hard worker and can do anything I can do.  It is so nice!

Everything she got was too small, except for her dress to wear to the first stake dance.  Then we found out it was casual dress, so she didn’t get to wear it until Sunday!  She doesn’t mind though, she just rolls with whatever. 

Sunday we had her cake and party with the neighbor cousins.  She requested that big old 6 layer rainbow cake.  She doesn’t ask for much, so I figured I better make it!

Ashley and Wynn, Oldest and Youngest, 14 years and 4 months old.  These two are by far my most alike kids.  We call Wynn Ashley’s twin, 14 years later!

Happy Birthday Ash, love you!

Sun Valley Trip

For the past 3 years our Simplot field man has invited us to the Simplot cabin for a few days of skiing and spa!  It is one of my favorite trips of the year.  Kids under 18 cant go, but nursing babies can.  I like this policy because it is fun to hang out with the siblings and spouses with out too many children.  Although we had 5 babies go this year!  We have had a baby boom in the Telford family!

Wynn liked sitting up in Presely’s bumbo.  He isnt quite ready for sitting up yet!

Jake is competing at the worlds greatest horseman competition.  It was fun to tune into it and watch him together.

This year all of the families on the farm went along with Tyler and Lain.  Bob and Sara just came up for the ski/spa day, her baby is brand new and she didn’t want to be away from home.  We stayed up way too late and had a great time!

Working Mom

Saturday I had to go into Burley to check on apartments.  Ryan couldn’t go so I took my next best man.  (I was having to evict a lady and needed some backup  Justin and I had a good time, the lady of course was not home and not moved out like I had told her to be.  But she did get moved out late Saturday night.  The apartment was a mess, but she is gone!  Thankfully!  My silly assistant;

He is a fun kid! 

Justin’s Basketball Ends

Justin had his last game on Valentines day.  He didn’t win one game, but had a great time and really learned a lot.  He was a bit to aggressive and had a few fouls.  He really rung one kids neck!  yikes!  Good thing they don’t keep track of fouls in elementary ball! 

He got to play more than any third grader, I am pretty sure he was one of the coaches favorite, and he loved  that!

Emma’s Daycare

We had Sara’s kids over when she was getting close to having her baby.  I had to run Ashley into the school and Emma kept all the kids.  When I got home this is what I found;

All the kids had a book and Emma was reading aloud to them.  I think they listen better to her then they do to me!  Good work Emms!

Wynn- So Serious!

Wynn isnt really so serious, although he is pretty solemn.  He is just a lot like Ryan, it takes a lot to get him excited, or mad, or sad.  He is just steady.  Which is really nice, except I have to really work at it to get a smile out of him! 

So many people say, I hate to say this, but he is such a pretty baby!  I think the same, he is so pretty, Ashley was really pretty like him also.  We looked at her baby pictures and it looks like Wynn in a dress!  I think they could be twins, and we are ok with that!  We will take another Ashley!

Peanut

Ryan is famous for his (after) Christmas presents.  We wanted to get a horse for Emma for Christmas but couldn’t ever find a good kid horse that we wanted to afford.  This pony came on craigslist and Ryan couldn’t resist.  He tricked the big kids into a trip to pick up new calves to feed.  They were ho humming around mad about feeding calves in the winter.  They were pleasantly surprised that it was a pony instead!

They sent me this text on the way home.

Ashley was about the only one that could handle him that day though.  He is an ornery Shetland.  He was nervous though, and you can see the horses were curious and wouldn’t leave him alone.

 

Hopefully Emma will take to him this spring.  Ashley does not like horses, Emma does, but Ashley isnt scared of them like Emma??  Crazy girls!

Claire of course loves all animals and is equally scared of all animals!

I thought his poor little legs were going to buckle under Ryan!  He is a fat pony, but not quite tough enough to hold big people!

The boys had nothing to do with him.  They like ponies with wheels!  We named him Peanut, wasn’t that the name of Bowen’s pony?